Answering to this Question, How to add Custom Blog Options to new blog setup form?, I ended up doing a plugin that does exactly that: adds a blog meta field to give each site a Category.
It’s a simple meta field, meaning: no category tree. I just revised the code and updated. Available in GitHub.
Main hooks:
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